Climate Change Cartoon
As I post the cartoon here, there are 952 comments on this Facebook post. And predictably, there is a bumper crop of climate change hoaxsters.
It’s pathetic.
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When Should We Mitigate Climate Change?
The cartoon here reminds me of my interview with the spokesperson for libertarian think tank The Cato Institute. As anyone could have guessed, Cato has arguments against climate change mitigation that could stretch from here to Halifax.
One of them, perhaps the most asinine of them all, goes like this: Almost all of the damage created by climate change will come several decades hence, therefore most of the work we do to mitigate it should also be done at that point.
I said, “This sounds analogous to an oncologist who says, ‘You have a tumor on your lung, but some of these grow slowly. In a few years, you should start to think about quitting smoking your two packs a day.'”
Climate Is a Must-Win
Here’s a guy who doesn’t mince words, and he’s nailed this one.
Climate change mitigation/adaptation is a war we either win, or our civilization founders.
We all lose.
It’s astonishing that we don’t seem to understand this.
Reversing Climate Change with Inane “Technology”–Only Morons Need Apply
As we all know, Donald Trump operates an array of different fraudulent operations, like raising money from morons for the ostensible purpose of funding legal campaigns that will “re-instate” him into office.
That’s bad, but what is arguably worse is soliciting funds from decent people to reverse climate change with bogus technology like this.
Where does the energy come from to run the fan that pumps air whose CO2 concentration is 0.04%?
One of the players in this con is shown at right, laughing with a colleague. I wonder why.
Buckminster Fuller on Technology
No one can say precisely where our civilization began to experience the surge in technology that we’re now enjoying. A case could be made for the electrification of essentially everything in our lives, which happened when people like Tesla, Edison, and Westinghouse implemented the discovery that Michael Faraday had made in the 1830s re: the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
In any case, what Buckminster Fuller said here is profound. Like all things in our lives, we have a decision to make. We can beat our swords into plowshares, or we can beat our plowshares into swords.
As a practical matter, social evils like war and selfishness are tough to deal with. Rich countries and the wealthy people who live in them are unwilling to give anything away, and will protect their possessions, literally to the death.
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Are Anti-Vaxxers Our “Enemy?”
This is funny, but part of me doesn’t look at anti-vaxxers as enemies, but rather the rightful object of our pity. Living with all that hate and ignorance must be terrible.
Moreover, we have the practical applications. Returning hate with hate simply entrenches everyone even further. If you want a change in behavior, that’s not an effective approach.
Loving one’s enemies is a principle that lies at the core of Quakerism, and I got a good, solid dose of that in k – 12 years.
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Pastor John Pavlovitz: Why the Right Hates Fauci
Here’s the personable and astute pastor John Pavlovitz, explaining the seething hatred that Republicans have for Dr. Anthony Fauci.
This is an excellent piece, and I don’t want to give anything away, but let me offer a hint: it’s not a collection of things; it’s one, extremely specific sin the doctor committed.
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How Will EV Newcomer Lucid Perform?
Nobody can deny that Lucid is receiving an enormous cascade of extremely positive press, most notably for its 500-mile range. Here’s an article from the Motley Fool that essentially falls into line. (more…)
Trump’s Vacation Schedule
I had a phone call just now with a reader, a Fox News acolyte, who is under the impression that Trump took very few vacations, whereas, to her horror, Biden just took four days off over Thanksgiving.
Here is a chart that presents Trump’s vacation schedule over his four years in office.
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Anti-Science and the Pandemic
A learned economist said recently, “We know that COVID-19 is temporary, but we also know that it will cause permanent effects.”
Interesting. It doesn’t seem certain that humankind will be able to put pandemics and their variants behind us anytime in the foreseeable future.
That’s especially true given the new breed of antivaxxer. Their numbers are growing, and their belief system isn’t going away. In fact, it seems to me that their dogmatic anti-science thought patterns are steadily becoming more ingrained.
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